Comcast Workers Denied Class Cert. In Wage Suit

Law360, New York (April 17, 2013, 8:06 PM EDT) -- A federal judge in Washington state on Wednesday refused to certify a class of Comcast Cable Communications Management LLC call center workers who filed a wage-and-hour suit against the company, saying it was not clear that all the class members had worked unpaid time each day to get their work done or that they had all been encouraged to work off the clock.

U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones said too many "individualized questions abound" in the case, including whether the more than 2,000 hourly workers...